McGill University
McGill University is a public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and one of Canada's two U15 institutions in the global top 100. Its programmable footprint is small and must be described honestly: McGill operates no developer portal, publishes no API key programme, and runs no OAuth authorization server. Exactly one machine-readable surface is operated by the institution itself — the Shibboleth SAML 2.0 identity provider at shibboleth.mcgill.ca, whose federation metadata is served unauthenticated at /idp/shibboleth and carries entityID and shibmd:Scope of mcgill.ca. Everything else that looks like a McGill API is a platform McGill is a tenant on: eScholarship@McGill runs on Scholaris (Scholars Portal / OCUL DSpace 7) at mcgill.scholaris.ca, which serves a DSpace REST root and a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint; the McGill University Dataverse is a collection on Borealis (borealisdata.ca), a consortial host shared with five other institutions in this catalog; the course catalogue at coursecatalogue.mcgill.ca is a CourseLeaf instance CNAMEd to mcgill-ca-public.courseleaf.com. Those relationships are real institutional facts and are recorded as tenant surfaces — the data is McGill's, the contracts are not. Registration, library discovery and HR run on Banner/Minerva, WorldCat and Workday behind authentication with no public interface.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles McGill University the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — McGill University scores 45.1/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 18/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile McGill University
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for McGill University. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 4
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
McGill University Authentication Service — Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider
McGill's SAML 2.0 identity provider and the only machine-readable surface in this profile that McGill itself operates. The federation metadata document at /idp/shibboleth is ser...
eScholarship@McGill on Scholaris (tenant)
McGill's institutional research repository, running as a tenant on Scholaris. It exposes a DSpace REST (HAL) root at /server/api and a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint at /server...
McGill University Dataverse on Borealis (tenant)
McGill's research-data collection on Borealis, the Canadian consortial Dataverse repository. The collection, its datasets and its DOIs are McGill's. The Dataverse Native and Sea...
McGill Course Catalogue on CourseLeaf (tenant)
McGill's official course catalogue, published on CourseLeaf. It carries an undocumented but live machine-readable course-detail endpoint — GET /ribbit/index.cgi?page=getcourse.r...
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Mcgill Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Mcgill Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Mcgill Finops
FINOPSSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
McGill University API Rules
SPECTRALSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for McGill University — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 4
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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